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Carbon

• Title: Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
  Link: http://www.cdproject.net/
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  The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. The data is obtained from responses to CDP’s annual Information Requests, issued on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organizations and government bodies. Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing primary climate change data to the global market place.

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• Title: CarbonFund.org
  Link: http://www.carbonfund.org
  Body:

  Carbonfund.org, a 501 c3 non-profit organization, is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to eliminate their climate impact and hastening the transformation to a clean energy future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through climate change education, carbon offsets and reductions, and public outreach.

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• Title: EPA Climate Leaders
  Link: http://www.epa.gov/climateleaders/index.html
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  Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Participating companies commit to reduce their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide inventory of their greenhouse gas emissions based on a quality management system, setting aggressive reduction goals, and annually reporting their progress to EPA. Through program participation, companies create a credible record of their accomplishments and receive EPA recognition as corporate environmental leaders.

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  Term: Carbon
• Title: EPA Guide to Purchasing Green Power
  Link: http://www.sustainablefurnishings.org/sites/sustainablefurnishings.org/files/sfc-images/purchasing_guide_for_web-2.pdf
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  Guide to purchasing renewable energy, intended for organizations that are considering the merits of buying green power as well as those that have decided to buy it and want help doing so. The Guide provides an overview of green power markets and describes the necessary steps to buying green power.

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• Title: Global Footprint Network
  Link: http://www.footprintstandards.org/
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  Global Footprint Network initiated a consensus, committee-based process for the development of standards governing Ecological Footprint accounting applications, and for an ongoing scientific review of the methodology.

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• Title: Greenhouse Gas Protocol
  Link: http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/dseriJfQI7TUHsp4jNxN/ghg-protocol-revised.pdf
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  The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership of businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and others convened by the World Resources Institute (WRI), a U.S.-based environmental NGO, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a Geneva-based coalition of 170 international companies. Launched in 1998, the Initiative’s mission is to develop internationally accepted greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting standards for business and to promote their broad adoption. The GHG Protocol Initiative comprises two separate but linked standards:
  • GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard
  • GHG Protocol Project Quantification Standard

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• Title: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Global Climate Change - Summary
  Link: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf
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  This summary, approved at IPCC Plenary XXVII in November of 2007, represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning key findings and uncertainties contained in the Working Group contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report.

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• Title: North Carolina Sustainable Business Council - Greenhouse Gas Inventory Quick Guide
  Link: http://www.sustainablefurnishings.org/sites/sustainablefurnishings.org/files/sfc-images/GHGQuickGuidefinaljuly2007.pdf
  Body:

  A guidance document to help companies and other organizations understand the benefits of developing an in-house greenhouse gas inventory and what can be involved in such an effort. This document identifies protocols, including ISO 14064 and the WRI/WBCSD GHG protocol, and it describes the purpose of the Climate Registry.

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